The bonfire of dreams is a scene in the Berserk Manga that is one of the major turning points for Guts.
Before the biggest decision he would make in his life, Guts sits atop a hill pondering the thousands of lights he can see at the war camp. He remarks how each light reflects a life. Each one is a small fire at the camp, a small wish for a better life, a place to belong, and loyalty after a time. All these fires coalesce from his vantage to form a spectacular blaze. This blaze is Griffith. The man whose dream would consume them all.
His flame is the blaze which is made up of all the rest, regardless of any of the other dreams, his flame is the one that is added to by the others.
What does this mean?
This is what I see when we follow a dream which someone else has laid out for us. Want to be a salesman at vivint? Your fire is part of someone else’s fire, you build them up. Want to be an internet marketer because of the ideas of Dan Koe? You stoke his fire.
You can never be equals with someone who has laid out a dream for you in this way, because they’re pyramid schemes and pyramid dreams.
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The bundle of beliefs I have scrapped together and come together as my own “religious” belief